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List of famous people from Hong Kong, including photos when available. The people below are listed by their popularity, so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. Some of the people below are celebrities born in Hong Kong, while others are simply notable locals. If you're from Hong Kong you might already know that these prominent figures are also from your hometown, but some of the names below may really surprise you. This list includes people who were born and raised in Hong Kong, as well as those who were born there but moved away at a young age.

A factual list, featuring people like Pang Fat and Athena Chu.

If you want to answer the questions, "Which famous people are from Hong Kong?" or "Which celebrities were born in Hong Kong?" then this list is a great resource for you.

Chow Yun-Fatage 60 Donald Chow Yun-fat, SBS, commonly known as Chow Yun-fat, is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the heroic bloodshed genre films A ...more

William Andersage 84 William Alison "Bill" Anders, is a former United States Air Force officer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. He is, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim ...more

Romola Garaiage 35 Romola Sadie Garai is an English actress. She is known for appearing in the films Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and in BBC series such as Emma, The Hour, and The Crimson Petal and ...more

Sammo Hungage 66 Sammo Hung, also known as Hung Kam-bo, is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director, known for his work in many martial arts films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has been a ...more

Andy Lauage 54 Andy Lau Tak-wah MH, JP is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer-songwriter, actor, presenter, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the ...more

Stephen Chowage 55 Stephen Chow is a Hong Kong actor, screenwriter, film director, producer and political adviser of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Aaron Kwokage 52 Aaron Kwok Fu-shing is a Hong Kong singer, dancer, and actor. He has been active since the 1980s and to the present. He is considered one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong. ...more

Pang Fatage 53 Danny Pang Phat is one of the Pang brothers. The twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang started their career in Hong Kong, where Oxide worked as colourist and Danny as editor. After moving to ...more

Frankie Chanage 62 Frankie Chan Fan-kei is a Chinese martial arts actor, film director, producer, action director, and composer. Chan is best known to Hong Kong action cinema fans as the main antagonist in Sammo ...more

William Hungage 35 William James Hung, also known as Hung Hing Cheong, is a Hong Kong-born American singer who gained fame in early 2004 as a result of his off-key audition performance of Ricky Martin's hit song ...more

Felix Chongage 50 Felix Chong Man-Keung is a Hong Kong screenwriter, film director and actor. He is one of the most celebrated screenwriters in Hong Kong and has won several prestigious awards at the Hong Kong ...more

Henry FokDec. at 83 (1923-2006) Henry Fok Ying Tung was a Hong Kong businessman. He has ancestral roots in Nansha, Panyu, now part of Guangzhou, Guangdong. Fok was the vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese ...more

Marguerite HigginsDec. at 46 (1920-1966) Marguerite Higgins Hall was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access ...more

Gloria Yipage 45 Gloria Yip Wan-Yee is a Hong Kong actress and singer, best known for her four films with director Lam Ngai Kai, and to Western audiences, her "special appearance" in Lam's Riki-Oh: The ...more

William Soage 50 William So is a Hong Kong actor and a cantopop singer. He began his musical career by participating the New Talent Singing Awards in 1985 and won the competition as the first runner up to Alex ...more

Anthony Yuage 80 Anthony C. Yu is a literature and religion scholar. He is currently the Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. Best known for his four-volume ...more

Agnes Chanage 62 Agnes Chan or Agnes Meiling Kaneko Chan is a pop singer, a "foreign television personality", a Doctor of Education, a professor at Japanese universities, an essayist, and a novelist. ...more

Vanya Seagerage 63 Vanya Seager is a glamour model who has appeared in the British tabloid, The Sun as a Page 3 girl.

Deborah Chungage 66 Deborah Duen Ling Chung is an American scientist and author.

Joan LorringDec. at 88 (1926-2014) Joan Lorring was an actress and singer known for her work in film and theatre. For her role as Bessy Watty in The Corn is Green, Lorring was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting ...more

Rory Stewartage 45 Roderick 'Rory' James Nugent Stewart, OBE, MP, FRSL is a British academic, author, diplomat, documentary maker and Conservative politician and chair of the Defence Select Committee. Since May ...more

Lam Ching-yingDec. at 45 (1952-1997) Lam Ching Ying was a Hong Kong stuntman, actor, film producer, action director and director. A physically talented and graceful martial artist, Lam was best known for playing the stoic Taoist ...more

Timmy Yipage 50 Timmy Yip Kam-tim Chinese: 葉錦添; born 1967) has worked as an art director and designer for fiction films. He is best known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won an Academy Award in art ...more

Daniel Chan Hiu Tungage 42 Daniel Chan Hiu-tung, born on 3 September 1975 in Hong Kong, is a popular Hong Kong singer, songwriter, and actor. He is most notable as one of the young talents in the 1990s music scene.

Johnnie Toage 62 Johnnie To, also known as To Kei-Fung, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a ...more

Corey Yuenage 67 Corey Yuen is a Hong Kong action director, film director, producer and action choreographer. He was a member of the Peking Opera Schools and one of the Seven Little Fortunes. As an actor, Yuen ...more

Derek Yeeage 58 Derek Yee Tung-sing, born in 1957, is a former Shaw Brothers actor from Hong Kong, currently a film director and screenwriter, who has achieved fame and respect in Hong Kong and international ...more

Philip Chanage 73 Philip Chan Yan-Kin is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, screenwriter and music composer of Taishan area origin. He worked as a Royal Hong Kong Police Force police inspector before ...more

Anita MuiDied at 40 (1963-2003) Anita Mui Yim-fong was a Hong Kong singer and actress. During her prime years, Mui made major contributions to the Cantopop music scene while receiving numerous awards and honours. She remained ...more

Yuen Biaoage 58 Yuen Biao is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has worked on over 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer. Along with ...more

Alan Makage 53 Alan Mak Siu-fai, born on 1 January 1968 in Hong Kong, is a writer, director, actor and producer.

Louis Kooage 47 Louis Koo is a Hong Kong film actor. He began his professional career as an actor in local television series, winning TVB's Best Actor award in 1999 and 2001. For the past decade, he has focused ...more

Heiward Makage 33 Heiward Mak is a film director, screenwriter and a film editor.

Charmaine Shehage 42 Sheh Sze-man is a Hong Kong actress and a contracted artiste under TVB best known for acting in many television series produced by TVB since 1998.

Melissa Huiage 51 Melissa Hui is a Canadian composer. Raised in Vancouver, Canada, Hui studied at the University of British Columbia, the California Institute of the Arts and Yale University. Among her musical ...more

Manfred Wongage 61 Manfred Wong is a Hong Kong radio personality, film producer, screenwriter, director and actor. He is best known for his involvement as a writer for the Young and Dangerous film series.

Sammi Chengage 45 Sammi Hui Cheng Sau-man is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Sammi is known as one of the most prominent female singers in Hong Kong, with album sales of over 25 million copies throughout ...more

Terence Yinage 42 Terence Yin Chi-wai is a Chinese film actor, singer, producer and media relations. Yin has starred in over 30 movies, released one solo album and resides in Hong Kong.

Raman Huiage 55 Raman Hui Shing-Ngai is a Chinese animator and film director best known for co-directing Shrek the Third, and directing several short films, including Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five, ...more

Dennis Lawage 55 Dennis Law Sau-yiu is a Hong Kong film producer, screenwriter and director. He is the former chairman and executive director of Milkyway Image, and a founder of its subsidiary company Point of ...more

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